Tag: school

Early this morning a friend’s wife called up. She has never called up ever, but as of now, she has taken the trouble of calling my mother, taking my number and calling me up on it. Half way down the conversation she cut it off, then did not bother to call back. A colleagues wife, …

World toilet day The UN has declared Nov.19th as the world Toilet day. We have lived and grown up with toilets, of course during our younger days when we travelled we never used public toilets since we were worried about hygiene with the advent of pay toilets those are taken care off too. The impact …

We do our morning walks very purposefully before the traffic. If we do reside at place where the traffic does not let up then we drive in our SUV’s to the thata-paati park and walk, yet we have abandonded this in our daily life. maybe it is a good idea to teach our kids to …

i-walk This morning as I was riding my bike down to the Kala Academy at Goa, a teenage kid from the college near by just dashed on, almost knocking me and my bike. She of course swore rather pathetically, at that moment I was nasty I told her, “if she wanted to die she should …

#BachpanWithFlinto A legacy I received... I wish I could hand it down Do I remember the good old days, of course the time I we played hide and seek and how we played it climbing roof tops and tree tops, baking when our mothers were not around, waiting for the letters from cousins after holidays, …

When we were kids, it was quite acceptable for kids from the villages to attend the town school; those who had relatives in town went to their house for lunch. Then there were houses that took on “vaarada oota” that is families would take on feeding couple of school going kids once a week. The …